Elle est une fée qui ne supporte plus de voir son monde s'effondrer. Il est le neveux du Gouverneur et se complait dans son univers de privilèges. Elle se bat, il se moque. Elle prêche la révolution, il se vautre dans la luxure. Elle est prête à tout abandonner pour tenter de changer les choses, il se mouve avec une assurance désinvolte dans un monde en fusion. Et pourtant le destin a voulu que leurs histoires s'entremêlent au sein de l'Institut. "Your generation has many of the old kinds of problems. Wars, economic inequalities, social disruptions, authoritarian regimes. But you have some new ones as well. The worst new one is climate change. It has brought with it a whole lot of others changes. Whirlwind, wilfires, floods, soil erosion, violent winds, droughts, bad harvests, and driven by all these things, and driven by all these things, human migration on vast scale. These condition are deeply unsettling. But as my mothers used to say : roll up your sleeves. That meant there was work to be done. What kind of work must be done ? Many kinds but all are works of renewal, and all involve changing the the way we see and imagine our lives." Margaret Atwwod, 2024, One young world